Euboea
noun
a Greek island in the W Aegean Sea. 1,586 sq. mi. (4,110 sq. km). Chalcis.
Euboic
-
a word derived from
Euboea.
Example Sentences
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One Euboic or Attic talent = sixty minae = six thousand drachmae = 243 pounds 15 shillings of our money.
From Hellenica by Henry Graham Dakyns
This debt was confused in the minds of the people with the 3200 Euboic talents exacted by Lutatius, and equally with Rome they were regarded as enemies to Carthage.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
He replaced the Pheidonian talent by that of the Euboic coinage, thus increasing the debt-paying capacity of money twenty-seven per cent, or, in other words, reduced the debt about that amount.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
In the more ancient times the workmen here brought up in three days an Euboic talent of silver, and their wages were fixed at a fourth part of the returns.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Max Duncker
Or otherwise thus calculated in English money: According to Budæus, the Euboic talent is 56 Minæ 56 Minæ reduced to English money is 175l.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Charles Rollin
